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Idea Quotes
"Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments."
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"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."
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"Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them."
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"New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South."
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"This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well."
"If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy."
"I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal."
"In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts."
"When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that."
"I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be."
"I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl."
"You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels."
Idea,
"I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful."
"You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them."
"The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content."
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
"So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel."
Idea,
"I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything."
"When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot."
"The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part."
"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."
"The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done."
"I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli."
"Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with."
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